Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...took nearly three hours to cover 100 meters. Once on the streets, her passage was slowed even further by dancing, cheering crowds shouting "Long live Bhutto!" and "Welcome home, Benazir!" The cheers turned to screams as the panicked crowd fled in all directions. Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the tribal areas of Pakistan had threatened to kill Bhutto upon her arrival, and intelligence agencies warned of several militant groups plotting terror attacks in the city...
With that decline in popularity has come a surge in Islamic militancy that Musharraf's army has been unable to combat. As many as 250 people, including some 45 soldiers, were killed in fierce fighting in Pakistan's tribal areas last week. Despite promises to the contrary, Musharraf was forced to use aircraft to bomb suspected militant hideouts, escalating the death toll and local anti-government rage. Some analysts are already calling the situation in North and South Waziristan, the locus of the fighting, a "civil war." On Friday, the eighth anniversary of Musharraf's coup, militants publicly beheaded...
...Taliban are stepping up not just their ambushes but their bullying. Provincial councilor Al-Haji Molavi Hamdullah Abdali told Time that Taliban threats against local people are depriving the Coalition of vital intelligence. After Pearce's death, he said, the council met with tribal elders: "We told them, 'Why are our enemies attacking from your area and why are you not stopping them?' They told us, 'It is out of our power.' They are too scared to contact government people or call for aid," Abdali said, "because the Taliban will know and they will face punishment from the Taliban...
...waged wars and insurgencies against the central government for decades. Politicians, the generals asserted, represented feuding ethnic interests. In Burma's last election - back in 1990 - as many as 20 ethnically based political parties contested the polls. Who better, the military argued, to keep peace among all these fractious tribal groups...
Corey M. Rennell ’07-’08 has been filmed stick fighting in South Africa, canoe racing in Vanuatu, and tribal wrestling in Brazil. Now, one hurdle remains: accepting the fact that his experiences will be on display for TV viewers as the reality show “Last One Standing” makes its U.S. debut this evening. The 12-part series, produced by the BBC, features six American and British athletes who compete with each other in tribal games while immersing themselves in indigenous culture. The show will air on the Discovery Channel...